Federal, state, and local governments all play a significant role in funding $300 billion in annual transportation spending. The federal government supplies important capital funding for highways, transit systems, airports, waterways, and ports while also operating the nation’s air traffic control system. State and local governments have an equally important task to invest in and operate their transportation networks and rely on a broad range of revenue sources, from general revenues and debt, to fuel taxes, fees, and tolls.
Thursday, September 13 – House Transportation and Infrastructure – Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials – subcommittee hearing on positive...
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September 6, 2018 - Congressional negotiators continue to make progress on the fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills – progress that...
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September 6, 2018 - The Federal Highway Administration yesterday published a funding notice in the Federal Register letting the 25...
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September 4, 2018 - The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a working paper last week summarizing all the available economic...
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September 4, 2018 - Last week, the Federal Highway Administration distributed $4.2 billion in additional highway formula funding for fiscal...
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September 5, 2018 - Ten years ago today, the U.S. Department of Transportation made the stunning announcement that the federal...
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This is the enrolled bill file prepared by the Bureau of the Budget on the Federal Aviation Act of 1958....
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August 17, 2018 - The U.S. Senate came back to Washington this week but did not take any steps to...
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August 17, 2018 - Part of both the Trump and Shuster infrastructure plans is a new federal funding mechanism for...
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August 16, 2018 - On August 9, the House Railroads Subcommittee went to Sacramento for a field hearing on the...
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Draft legislation transmitted by the Office of Management and Budget to Congress in June 2018 creating a Federal Capital Revolving Fund...
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Refreshing the Status Quo: Federal Highway Programs and Funding Distribution
This year, the federal government gave $45.6 billion in highway “formula” funding to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The state-by-state distribution of this money was based almost entirely on how the states fared on a variety of real-world metrics back in calendar year 2007,...